Skift Take WanderJaunt declares in its sales pitch to offer its properties that it had industry-leading system economics. It does not describe, nevertheless, why it closed operations on brief notice leaving staff members, visitors, and creditors hanging. Dennis Schaal WanderJaunt, the Phoenix Arizona-headquartered residential or commercial property supervisor that had raised $37 million in...
Skift Take Our thoughts are with all those threatened by Typhoon Ian. Sean O’Neill Airlines canceled over a thousand U.S. flights on Tuesday and Wednesday and several Florida airports are halting operations as they braced for effect from Hurricane Ian, which was set to make landfall in the state. Airlines had ditched 321 flights on Tuesday and 1,148 on Wednesday across the U.S., according...
Skift Take The race to develop the nation’s fifth-largest airline company is getting hotter as both Frontier and JetBlue continue to up their bid for Spirit Airlines. After Frontier’s latest move, will JetBlue come up with something before the investors vote on June 30? Peden Doma Bhutia Spirit Airlines Inc on Friday urged its investors to back a merger handle Frontier Group Holdings...
Skift Take Airlines have actually historically been cautious about adopting brand-new innovations. So it stands out to hear any talk that providers are purchasing brand-new software throughout the pandemic-related profits crisis. Sean O’Neill, Skift Flyr Labs, which offers software to airlines to assist them set their fares in revenue-boosting ways, has bought two smaller companies to...
As summer heats up, so does the marketing, with Google reporting that look for destinations to check out doubled in the 2nd quarter. Unlike previous years, more travel business will now be competing for digital wanderers and remote workers in addition to standard travelers in the coming months. It’s a demographic rising, as borders reopen and growing numbers of services go remote or begin...
Skift Take Vacation rental companies want to imitate hotel companies with brand name requirements around cleaning and other operations, but they’re likewise dealing with similar problems as hotels when it comes to labor. Cameron Sperance The vacation home rental service was more durable than expected throughout the pandemic, and operators of all sizes are seeking to hotel-style operations...
Skift Take Many people will be seeing the next chapter in Manny Fontenla-Novoa’s profession closely. Can he restore his track record with this new pan-European travel bureau? Matthew Parsons, Skift Manny Fontenla-Novoa, the CEO dislodged by Thomas Cook after three profit cautions and a bank bailout in 2011, is back in the spotlight a decade later on as 2 European travel companies prepare to...
Skift Take Booking Holdings hasn’t offered sufficient focus to its collaborations organization in the past, ceding much ground to Expedia Group on that front. Obtaining hotel distributor Getaroom will provide potential affiliates another reason to sign up. Dennis Schaal In its first pandemic-era acquisition, Reservation Holdings agreed to buy hotel wholesaler Getaroom for $1.2 billion, the...
Skift Take United Airlines had anticipated to fly more this year than it carried out in 2019, but the spread of the Omicron version caused a huge slump in first-quarter need, a hole United doesn’t anticipate to climb up out of no matter how strong the remainder of the year is. Madhu Unnikrishnan United Airlines’ ambitious plans to fly more this year than it carried out in 2019, prior...
Tourism Vancouver Island revealed in April it was dropping its conventional tourist marketing company model of more than 60 years to run as a non-profit social enterprise– a company designed to invest all its profits back into social objectives. There’s no doubt this represented aparadigm shift in the debate about the broadened role of tourism boards these last 2 years, from...